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mirkwood:

Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist white scientist who decides to give a group of black men a STI and, instead of treating them for it, watch them slowly suffer from it so you can study it FOR SCIENCE.

Yes, Tuskeegee was JUST LIKE the Inquisition (1100-1800).

Now imagine you’re the white supremacist sexist medical establishment that denies women the right to get their tubes tied unless they already have loads of kids and require them to get their husband’s permission while at the same time forcibly sterilising legions of native and black women.

That’s because some sexes/races are inferior. No? If only there were a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge to disprove such a claim.

Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist psychologist who decides that slaves wanting to escape is a psychological disorder called “drapetomania” and the “cure” for that is lashings and cutting off toes.

You can do much, much better. You can find some evil bastards who were doing actual science. For that matter, highlight Oppenheimer.

Now imagine that you’re the “objective” and “scientific” medical establishment that deems queerness a disorder and decides that electroshock treatments or lobotomies are the effective solution or feels the need to “intervene” by surgically altering the bodies of intersex infants to fit your perceptions of what genitalia should look like.

And the sins of pseudo- and unethical science ARE ON PAR with the Catholic Church’s millennia-long record on matters LGBT.

Religion has done a lot of fucked up shit.

GO ON.

But I’m sick and tired of people acting like SCIENCE hasn’t been involved in wars, death, and genocide either.

And one time Thag used flame to start fire in cave! Me sick of Thag saying flame better than Sky Father!

And it’s the assumptive bullshit notion that ALL religions are somehow stupid

It’s the polar opposite of “assumptive” if we can agree on what constitutes “bullshit.”

and not worth your consideration that perpetuates this colonialist bullshit approach that white people have now upon Native and other individuals when tribes fight for the right to their sacred lands of, “Oh you’re religion is just hooey!”

You’re not talking about science. You’re not even talking about religion. You’re talking about politics.

First they “civilised” us with religion and now it’s science and repatriation. Stealing native lands and native artifacts and native bodies FOR SCIENCE so you can profit off of them.

I missed the part where Marie Curie gives the natives smallpox blankets.

If you’re going to lay in on the death religion causes, IMO you better realize that there’s a difference between the bastion of white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy that is modern Christianity and other religions which have little in the way of social power in comparison.

DULY REALIZED. And there’s a difference between ebola and strep throat. But as much FUN as they are, we’d prefer to keep BOTH the Jehovah AND gem crystals away from the kids, because both tend to produce poor outcomes.

AND you better recognize that science can be just another extention of white supremacist cisheteropartiarchy too and FURTHER the goals of that power structure rather than being as “objective” as they claim and countering it.

Yeah, the Establishment’s a real bitch(!) amirite? The struggle for cultural competency continues apace.

Haha. Imagine that.
Also, Ricky Gervais is a jerk.

A jerk using satire to advance atheism, not the ethical lapses of BIG SCIENCE. But don’t let us stand between you and that red herring.

Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist white scientist who decides to give a group of black men a STI and, instead of treating them for it, watch them slowly suffer from it so you can study it FOR SCIENCE.

Yes, Tuskeegee was JUST LIKE the Inquisition (1100-1800).

Now imagine you’re the white supremacist sexist medical establishment that denies women the right to get their tubes tied unless they already have loads of kids and require them to get their husband’s permission while at the same time forcibly sterilising legions of native and black women.

That’s because some sexes/races are inferior. No? If only there were a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge to disprove such a claim.

Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist psychologist who decides that slaves wanting to escape is a psychological disorder called “drapetomania” and the “cure” for that is lashings and cutting off toes.

You can do much, much better. You can find some evil bastards who were doing actual science. For that matter, highlight Oppenheimer.

Now imagine that you’re the “objective” and “scientific” medical establishment that deems queerness a disorder and decides that electroshock treatments or lobotomies are the effective solution or feels the need to “intervene” by surgically altering the bodies of intersex infants to fit your perceptions of what genitalia should look like.

And the sins of pseudo- and unethical science ARE ON PAR with the Catholic Church’s millennia-long record on matters LGBT.

Religion has done a lot of fucked up shit.

GO ON.

But I’m sick and tired of people acting like SCIENCE hasn’t been involved in wars, death, and genocide either.

And one time Thag used flame to start fire in cave! Me sick of Thag saying flame better than Sky Father!

And it’s the assumptive bullshit notion that ALL religions are somehow stupid

It’s the polar opposite of “assumptive” if we can agree on what constitutes “bullshit.”

and not worth your consideration that perpetuates this colonialist bullshit approach that white people have now upon Native and other individuals when tribes fight for the right to their sacred lands of, “Oh you’re religion is just hooey!”

You’re not talking about science. You’re not even talking about religion. You’re talking about politics.

First they “civilised” us with religion and now it’s science and repatriation. Stealing native lands and native artifacts and native bodies FOR SCIENCE so you can profit off of them.

I missed the part where Marie Curie gives the natives smallpox blankets.

If you’re going to lay in on the death religion causes, IMO you better realize that there’s a difference between the bastion of white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy that is modern Christianity and other religions which have little in the way of social power in comparison.

DULY REALIZED. And there’s a difference between ebola and strep throat. But as much FUN as they are, we’d prefer to keep BOTH the Jehovah AND gem crystals away from the kids, because both tend to produce poor outcomes.

AND you better recognize that science can be just another extention of white supremacist cisheteropartiarchy too and FURTHER the goals of that power structure rather than being as “objective” as they claim and countering it.

Yeah, the Establishment’s a real bitch(!) amirite? The struggle for cultural competency continues apace.

Haha. Imagine that.

Also, Ricky Gervais is a jerk.

A jerk using satire to advance atheism, not the ethical lapses of BIG SCIENCE. But don’t let us stand between you and that red herring.

↵ Originally posted by onlytruthmatters

↵ Reblogged from nerdshares

“They get so religiously extreme that they deny reality. They’re like, ‘Gay doesn’t exist. You don’t see gay in the natural world.’ You know what I don’t see as much in the natural world? Angels—those are half-human, half-bird creatures, everybody. The devil is half-man, half-goat.

I’ve seen more gays, is all I’m saying.”

—Myq Kaplan

$skepticalavenger: The more I read about Mother Teresa, the more I think her mind fractured when she couldn’t handle the cognitive dissonance between what her faith was telling her and what reality was telling her. (Source)$

skepticalavenger:

The more I read about Mother Teresa, the more I think her mind fractured when she couldn’t handle the cognitive dissonance between what her faith was telling her and what reality was telling her.

(Source)

↵ Originally posted by skepticalavenger

↵ Reblogged from skepticalavenger

Well this is awkward.

# There were never such devoted sisters

Children make their way to the St Patrick’s Day parade during the St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Limerick, Ireland, Sunday, March 17, 2013.

Most Irish image ever. Contest over. Shut it down. We’re done.

The surprise of Cardinal Bergoglio from Argentina as the new Pope, Pope Francis, is matched by the order he comes from—The Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits … Bergoglio was Pope Benedict’s only real rival in the last Conclave of 2005, receiving 40 votes …

What is most interesting however, is that the Cardinals have chosen from a member of the Jesuits for pope. The leader of the Jesuits, the General, has often been referred to as “the Black Pope”. Now, both the seat of Peter, the White Pope, and the Black Pope are both Jesuits. Let the conspiracy theories begin.

The choice of Pope Francis I then, is a complicated one for the church, and for the world. While it has annoyed many non-Catholics to put up with this news all week, the fact is, its not just an election of a religious figure, but a political one. After all, the pope may be the Bishop of Rome, but he also runs Vatican City, a city state.

↵ Originally posted by 3pmcatholic

↵ Reblogged from 3pmcatholic

Congrats, Francis. You go girl.

Big comeback for the Jesuits! The papacy tried to extinguish them back in the day. Guess which order the new pope belongs to?

One of the things I love about a papal conclave is that it’s eight hours ahead. It’s got all the gravitas of a presidential election, but none of the minute by minute developments. So I can enjoy all the coverage without feeling like I have to stay glued to a television or a smartphone for breaking news.

The smoke is black or white. See you tomorrow.

James Gurney’s terrific fantasy art will eventually lead you down the rabbit hole to this totally serious, not-at-all-joking, biblical fanfic Dinosaurs of Eden, which I may or or may not have just purchased on Amazon for $11.19.

Sorely tempted to print and frame this.

(Source: confrontingbabble-on)

↵ Originally posted by confrontingbabble-on

↵ Reblogged from skepticalavenger

The next pope will be Christoph Schönborn, cardinal archbishop of Vienna. The principal editor of the modern Catechism of the Catholic Church, Schönborn was among Benedict’s favorite students back when the current pope was a theology professor, and he stands as one of the few high clerics to act heroically during the sexual-abuse scandal. What’s more, he urged Benedict to push into retirement the flawed Cardinal Sodano (a man whose career has been repeatedly touched by reports of financial impropriety, however much the old-priests’ network tried to shield him). Smart, personable, profoundly devout, Schönborn deserves to be pope.

Except, of course, that no one ever deserves that office beyond all human deserts. For that matter, Schönborn’s efforts came to naught, and Sodano successfully fended off retirement. He remains dean of the college of cardinals and will lead the conclave that picks the new pope in the middle of March, which, one imagines, rather weakens the 68-year-old Schönborn’s chances. “He’s simply stepped on too many toes,” one Roman cleric explained. Vatican officials will form a third of the conclave: 39 out of 117 members. And while they may respect Schönborn—it was he who, for example, led the effort to elect Benedict in the conclave of 2005—they do not trust him not to reassign them all to missionary work in the Outer Hebrides. Fire them all, God will know his own isn’t a line most of the Vatican wants to hear from someone newly elected to St. Peter’s throne.

Which means the next pope probably won’t be Christoph Schönborn, cardinal archbishop of Vienna.

# Christoph Schönborn